Dr Richard Iveson

BArts (Hons), University of the Arts London (Camberwell); MA, Middlesex University, UK; PhD, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Richard Iveson's teaching and research interests include animal studies and animal liberation; Continental philosophy (with focus on Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida); posthumanism; cultural studies; biotechnology and cyberculture; post-Marxism; political activism; pedagogy and the university; SF; and the trope of the fantastic.

Research Interests

Continental Philosophy

Animal Studies

Posthumanism

Biotechnology

Post-Marxism

I welcome applications from prospective PhD students working in any of the above areas.

Current Research

Richard's current research is an interdisciplinary project investigating current debates surrounding the notion of the ‘posthuman’ and, more specifically, examining the significance of these debates for challenging traditional oppositions between the living and the inanimate. Despite the recent opening up of contested ethical and political spaces in the wake of the collapsing of traditional boundaries separating human from animal, animal from machine, and machine from human, and despite the huge acceleration of technological innovation and often complementary fascination with the posthuman, the contingent and constructed opposition between the living body and the inanimate object, of (human) subject and (animal, machinic) object, still today structures practically every aspect of existence.By focusing on the collapse of a secure division between living beings and inanimate objects, the aim of this study is thus to analyse the emergence of complex and layered ‘posthuman’ spaces that render perceptible previously unseen historical, ethical, political and sociotechnical relationships.

Conference presentations

"In the Belly of the Beast: On the Force-Feeding of Servitude in Plato's Republic," 2016 ICAS Oceania Conference, 30 September-1 October 2016, University of Canberra.

‘“Whether There is Life or Not”: Triangulating Matter with Derrida, Meillassoux, and DeLanda.’ Derrida Today, 28-31 May 2014, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York.

‘Cannibals and Apes: Revolution in the Republic.’ London Conference in Critical Thought, 29-30 June, 2012, Birkbeck College, University of London.

‘The Disciplinary Underbelly in the Margins of Control: Foucault in the Slaughterhouse and the Laboratory.’ Radical Foucault: An International Conference,8-9 September 2011, The Centre For Cultural Studies Research, University of East London.